Phones then and now. Mobile phones are not what they used to be.
Surely many of you from time to time remember the past, the era of the birth of cellular communications and the era of its development. Moreover, we are much less likely to remember the draconian communication tariffs of past years than the successful phone models that some of us still have gathering dust somewhere on our shelves. When you pick up a good old pipe, you involuntarily feel a sense of nostalgia. Oh, how nice it is to feel it in your hands again, what a feeling of confidence it conveys and how temptingly its screen lights up after installing the SIM card. Let's take a look at the past and remember the most successful cell phones of yesteryear, which have become classics and a standard of quality.
Motorola StarTAC 70
Year of manufacture: 1997
One of the first handsets of many mobile communications veterans from the times when it was available only to a select few. Motorola StarTAC - the classic business class model of the outgoing brand supported only the GSM 900 band, but even then had relatively small dimensions - 57x98x23 mm and weight - 125 g.
Year of manufacture: 1999
An elite phone at a crazy price in those years (about 11-12 thousand rubles). The model was made in an aluminum case and had a sliding flip covering the keyboard. It was distinguished by the absence of an external antenna, very miniature dimensions - 44x100x17 mm and weight - 91 g, therefore it was especially popular among girls. The downside is the massive defective b/w screen, as a result of which almost every second phone required repair over time. However, this did not prevent the model from becoming very popular. An interesting fact: such a luxurious phone could only read SMS in Russian, but, despite the presence of input in Cyrillic, SMS in its native language reached the recipient empty.
Year of manufacture: 1999
Another premium phone from the long-defunct Ericsson brand. Just like the Nokia 8850, it had a flip that covered the keyboard, but in this case it did not slide down, but folded back when you pressed a button, which looked very stylish. Here, too, there were some drawbacks - over time, this button wore out and ceased to perform its function. The model had a very miniature 3-line monochrome display and was distinguished by its thinness - 15 mm.
Year of manufacture: 2000
The same thin brother of the T28s model, however, already belonged to the business class, had very impressive dimensions of 51x130x15 mm and a large display with 5 lines of text. The phone turned out to be very successful and in demand, especially after its price dropped significantly. It is worth noting that this device was one of the first phones with full Russian input, including sending SMS.
Nokia 3310
Year of manufacture: 2000
A classic of the genre in the budget segment. The phone is a legend of yesteryear. Almost every third person went with him. Nokia 3310 was bought by workers, students and everyone who needed a simple “workhorse”. The phone was purchased by company employees and couriers as a simple and reliable device for work. The model was produced in various colors and had replaceable panels. It had a fairly decent weight - 133 g. Minus - Ni-MH battery included.
Year of manufacture: 2001
Another expensive fashion phone from Nokia with a b/w screen and replaceable body panels. It featured an originally designed keyboard with stylish backlit buttons. The model was also distinguished by its miniature dimensions - 43x97x19 mm and weight - 84 g. An additional bonus was a built-in FM radio - a rarity in those days.
Siemens ME45
Year of manufacture: 2001
A chic dust- and waterproof business class SUV with a black and white screen. The debut of Siemens and the most successful model of a brand that has left the market. The model gained enormous popularity and was in active demand even after it was discontinued.
Nokia 6100
Year of manufacture: 2002
A miniature and very thin business class model with replaceable panels and a color screen (4096 colors, 128x128 pixels). Dimensions - 44x102x14 mm, weight - 76 g. A very expensive phone at the beginning of sales (about $400). It was in demand for a very long time, including after it was removed from the assembly line.
Year of manufacture: 2002
Almost a complete analogue of the Nokia 6100 based on the successful Series 40 platform, however, thanks to the stylishly designed keyboard and original backlit keys, it already belonged to the premium segment. The price is similar to 6100.
Nokia 6310i
Year of manufacture: 2002
A modified Nokia 6310 model, the main feature of which is a record operating time from a powerful 1100 mAh battery. The Nokia 6310i phone with a b/w screen with blue backlight (unlike the 6300, where the backlight was green) and Bluetooth support was able to last up to 2 weeks on a single charge. It had impressive dimensions of 47x130x19 mm, weight - 114 g and belonged to business class. The model remained popular and in demand even years after it was discontinued, which was taken advantage of by unscrupulous sellers who offered a “refreshed” version (with an updated body) of the phone for a lot of money (about 10 thousand rubles).
Year of manufacture: 2003
An excellent image and at the same time affordable model of the former Sony Ericsson brand, which managed to turn from the once united Sony and Ericsson into just Sony. It was distinguished by a beautiful “metal-like” body and cool polyphony. The continuation of the phone in the form of the T630i model with an improved screen (TFT versus STN) and a camera with a software-enhanced resolution to VGA did not give the company such repeated success.
Year of manufacture: 2004
An image-class razor phone with a thickness of 14 mm, which caused a storm of emotions and active demand among buyers, especially after a strong drop in price. It is not for nothing that the RAZR line subsequently received its numerous continuations, including the V3i model with an improved screen resolution (240x320 instead of 176x220) and a more advanced camera (1.3 MP versus VGA).
Year of manufacture: 2005
An elite phone that became famous precisely because of its high cost (about $2000 at the start of sales). The model was bought by those who could afford it in order to stand out. The phone was originally released in a black or silver steel case (other variations later appeared) and was distinguished by a stylish sliding mechanism, with the help of which its upper half, including the display, seemed to “shoot” upward when you move your finger. Later, like any successful model, the Nokia 8800 was continued in the Sirocco line, and then in the latest series - Arte, which featured a larger battery, better display and camera, 3G support and a variety of body finishes, including real sapphire as a navigation key.
Year of manufacture: 2009
3G smartphone with a 600 MHz processor based on the legacy Symbian OS 9.3 (Series 60) operating system. It was distinguished by long battery life thanks to a powerful 1500 mAh battery. Also an important role was played by the stylish case with an aluminum back cover only 10 mm thick.
Year of manufacture: 2011
Of the relatively modern devices, I would like to note the iPhone 4s smartphone from Apple as the most successful model with an “optimal” 3.5-inch screen - the latest work of the company’s mastermind, Steve Jobs.
Afterword
That's probably all. The era of hit phones that have become classics, the standard of style and reliability is over. Or not? What phones, or rather smartphones, of our time can claim such a title? Time will show.
Please leave your thoughts on this topic in the comments to the article or on our forum.
Modern mobile phones are significantly different from what they used 20 or even 10 years ago. Photo evidence is attached.
The world's first mobile phone: Motorola DynaTAC 8000X (1983)
Today, Motorola cannot be called a leader in the mobile industry, but it is the company that released the world's first mobile phone. It turned out to be the DynaTAC 8000X model. A prototype of the device was shown in 1973, but commercial sales began only in 1983. The powerful DynaTAC weighed almost a kilogram, ran for an hour on a single battery charge, and could store up to 30 phone numbers.
First car phone: Nokia Mobira Senator (1982)
In the early 1980s, the Nokia Mobira Senator became widely known. It came out in 1982 and was the first of its kind - it was intended for use in a car, while weighing about 10 kilograms.
Gorbachev spoke on it: Nokia Mobira Cityman 900 (1987)
In 1987, Nokia introduced the Mobira Cityman 900, the first device for NMT (Nordic Mobile Telephony) networks. The device became easily recognizable due to the fact that Mikhail Gorbachev used it to make a call from Helsinki to Moscow, and this was not ignored by photographers. Nokia Mobira Cityman 900 weighed approximately 800 grams. The price was high - in terms of today's money, its purchase would cost Americans $6,635, and Russians - 202,482 rubles.
First GSM phone: Nokia 101 (1992)
The Nokia phone with the modest number 101 was the first commercially available device capable of operating on GSM networks. The monoblock with a monochrome screen had a retractable antenna and a book with 99 numbers. Unfortunately, it did not yet have the famous Nokia tune ringtone, since the composition appeared in the next model, released in 1994.
Touchscreen: IBM Simon Personal Communicator (1993)
One of the first attempts to create a communicator was the joint development of IBM and Bellsouth. The IBM Simon Personal Communicator phone ditched the keyboard, offering instead a touchscreen with a stylus. For $899, buyers received a device that could make calls, send faxes and store notes.
First flip phone: Motorola StarTAC (1996)
In 1996, Motorola confirmed its title as an innovator by introducing the first flip phone, the StarTAC. The device was considered stylish and fashionable, it was compact not only for that time, but also in comparison with modern smartphones.
First smartphone: Nokia 9000 Communicator (1996)
The weight of the Nokia 9000 Communicator (397 grams) did not prevent the phone from becoming popular. The first smartphone was equipped with 8 MB of memory and monochrome screens. When opened, the user's gaze revealed a QWERTY keyboard, making it easier to work with text.
Replacement panels: Nokia 5110 (1998)
In the late 1990s, companies realized that consumers viewed mobile phones not only as communication tools, but also as accessories. In 1998, Nokia released the 5110 model, which supported replaceable panels. The phone has also become popular due to its excellent build and good operating time. It featured the famous game “Snake”.
First phone with a camera: Sharp J-SH04 (2000)
Sharp J-SH04 was released in Japan in 2000. This is the world's first camera phone. The camera resolution today seems ridiculous - 0.1 megapixels, but then the J-SH04 seemed like something incredible. After all, the phone could be used as a bad camera, but still a camera.
Mail - the main thing: RIM BlackBerry 5810 (2002)
RIM introduced its first BlackBerry in 2002. Before this, the Canadian manufacturer was producing organizers. The main drawback of the BlackBerry 5810 was the lack of a microphone and speakers - to talk on it, you needed a headset.
PDA meets phone: Palm Treo 600 (2003)
Palm has long been considered the main manufacturer of PDAs (personal pocket computers) and in 2003 released the extremely successful Treo 600 model. The communicator with a QWERTY keyboard, color screen, 5-way navigation key was based on Palm OS 5.
Gaming phone: Nokia N-Gage (2003)
Nokia has made several attempts to capture the minds of mobile players and not all of them were successful. The first truly gaming phone is called Nokia N-Gage. Its design is similar to a handheld console and was positioned as an alternative to the Nintendo Game Boy. On the front side there are gaming control keys, which few people found convenient. The games themselves were recorded on MMC memory cards. The microphone and speaker in N-Gage are located at the end, so all users looked like Cheburashkas during conversations. There were a lot of disadvantages and the project failed.
O2 XDA II (2004)
O2, like Palm, was heavily involved in PDAs. In 2004, the XDA II model appeared, offering users a sliding QWERTY keyboard and office applications. The price was steep back then – $1,390.
Razor-thin: Motorola RAZR V3 (2004)
The best-selling clamshell is the Motorola RAZR V3. The model attracted attention with its subtle and stylish design. The creators took inspiration from the “old man” StarTAC and eventually released a device, clad in a body with aluminum inserts, with a VGA camera (0.3 MP), Bluetooth, GSM. Afterwards, the improved RAZR V3x, RAZR V3i and RAZR V3xx with a better camera, 3G, microSD were seen.
First phone with iTunes: Motorola ROKR E1 (2005)
In 2005, few could have imagined that Apple, specializing in computers and music players, would decide to enter the mobile industry (and introduce the popular iPhone). The company entered into an agreement with Motorola, and as a result, ROKR E1 was created - a device with support for the iTunes music library. Customers' expectations were not met - few people liked the candy bar with Motorola-design, slow USB 1.1 interface, outdated 0.3-megapixel camera and limit on storing songs (100 pieces).
Motorola MOTOFONE F3 (2007)
Motorola MOTOFONE F3 was sold for only 60 US dollars. One of the most affordable devices on the market offered a display made using electronic paper technology (EPD, Electronic Paper Display). The advantages include low weight and small thickness.
Easy finger control: Apple iPhone (2007)
The first version of the Apple iPhone was originally released in the US in 2007. The touchphone with a 2-megapixel camera, a 3.5-inch touch screen, and a convenient finger-oriented interface supported only second-generation networks. The iPhone did not work with MMS and could not record video. In 2008, the iPhone 3G was released, and in 2009, the iPhone 3GS. The concept has not changed in three years - programs and a user-friendly interface are at the center.
“My phone rang...” I’m sure that none of us today can imagine life without communications. We forget our phone at home and rush back to get it; we can’t find it in our bag or briefcase and always get upset. Who brought into our lives a unique technique that helps connect people at a distance?
Lesson plan:
Is it possible to communicate without a phone?
Of course you can! People lived before, and they didn’t have any newfangled telephone models, but they transmitted information from each other far beyond the borders of their place of residence. The need for communication forced people to come up with different ways to “challenge” and tell the news to comrades located several kilometers away. How it was?
By that time, the first attempts had already been made to create a telegraph capable of transmitting signals over long distances using electricity. The fundamentals of electrical engineering were carried out by the scientists Galvani and Volt, and the Russians Schilling and Jacobi made their contribution, who invented transmission codes and an apparatus that converted signals into text.
A little later, in 1837, thanks to the American inventor Morse, an electric telegraph and a special code system of dots and dashes, widely known to everyone under the name “Morse code,” appeared.
But even this was not enough for the scientists of those centuries. They dreamed that it would be possible not only to receive dry text over wires, but also to speak over them!
This is interesting! Archaeologists discovered two pumpkins in the Peru region, connected by a rope and concluded that this structure is the thousand-year-old ancestor of the telephone. Indeed, it is very similar to two matchboxes connected by a thread, which we tried to “ring” in childhood.
Who invented it first?
The history of the appearance of the telephone is associated with Alexander Bell from America. But he was not the only one who was actively involved in the design idea of transmitting the human voice at a distance. Let's take a brief look through the pages of history and see how far the invention traveled in the first stages of its birth.
Italian Antonio Meucci
In 1860, Antonio Meucci, a native of Italy, showed the Americans a device that could transmit sound over a wire, but he filed a patent application only in 1871, and to all his questions about the fate of the documents, the company that took them answered that they were lost.
German Philipp Reis
In 1861, German physicist Philipp Reis introduced the public to an electrical apparatus capable of transmitting sound. By the way, from him came the name “telephone,” which we are accustomed to hearing today, which is translated from Greek as “sound from afar.”
Its transmitter was made in the form of a hollow box with holes: sound - in the front and covered with a membrane - on top. But the quality of sound transmission in Reis's phone was so low that it was impossible to make out anything, so his invention was not accepted by those around him.
Americans Gray and Bell
Only 15 years later, two American designers Gray and Bell, completely independently of each other, were able to discover how a metal membrane with the help of a magnet, like the eardrum of our ear, can transform sound and transmit it through an electrical signal.
Why did Bell get all the laurels of fame? It's simple! On February 14, 1876, he submitted his application to patent the invention he discovered - the “talking telegraph” - a couple of hours earlier than Gray did.
I can imagine how upset Gray was.
Bell presented the telephone at a technical exhibition in Philadelphia.
The new technology did not have a bell; the subscriber was called by the attached whistle, and the only handset both received and transmitted speech at the same time. The first telephones had to generate electricity themselves, so the telephone line only worked at a distance of up to 500 meters.
This is interesting! In 2002, the American Congress made a decision that turned the telephone world upside down: it recognized the Italian Meucci as the true inventor of the telephone.
Evolution of the phone
Since the first telephone was presented to the public, inventors and designers have put a lot of effort into making a modern means of communication out of a primitive device.
Thus, engineers were able to replace the whistle for calling a subscriber with an electric bell. In 1876, a switch was invented that could connect not only two, but several telephones with each other.
A year later, inventor Edison contributed to the development of the telephone - his induction coil increases the distance of sound transmission, and a carbon microphone, which improves the quality of communication, was used until the end of the 20th century. At the same time, in 1877, the first telephone exchange appeared in America, through which those wishing to call someone were connected to the desired number of the telephone operator through plugs.
Thanks to the contribution of the Russian inventor Golubitsky, centrally powered stations were able to serve tens of thousands of subscribers. What is noteworthy is that the first telephone conversation in Russia took place three years after the advent of the telephone, and in 1898 the first intercity line was built between Moscow and St. Petersburg.
This is interesting! The first telephones were not very convenient. It was difficult to hear through them, so they came up with special tubes of different sizes and shapes, into which you just had to stick your nose so that the subscriber could understand what the conversation was about. At first they were made separate: one - to speak into it, the second - to listen from it. Then they began to be connected with a handle, like a modern telephone receiver. Telephone sets were made from ivory, mahogany, and cast metal. The bell cups were chromed to a shine. But one thing remained unchanged: the body, the tube and the lever on which it was hung after the conversation.
By leaps and bounds towards modernity
The inventive world did not stop there. Having received a telephone at home, people wanted to use a modern means of communication on the street, in transport, and communicate on the way to work or home.
Such communication, not tied to the premises, was initially available only to special services - walkie-talkies under the nickname “walkie-talkie”, or “walk and talk”, became a tempting idea for ordinary users. Knowing the secrets of the device, the craftsmen tried to connect the devices to the line using such radio communication. So in the 80s, radiotelephones appeared that operated at a distance of up to 300 meters.
But the main advantage of recent years has undoubtedly been cellular communications, which operate on a signal moving from one station to another.
The modern “honeycomb” appeared in 1973 at Motorola. Their firstborn worked without recharging for no more than 20 minutes and was the size of a brick and weighed as much as 794 grams!
These are our modern “mobile phones” now, small and compact, capable of taking photographs, sending mail and messages, playing music and even thinking for their owner! They have become real helpers for children and their parents - you can always call and find out how they are doing!
This is interesting! Singapore resident En Yang can write SMS the fastest - he needs a little more than 40 seconds for a message of 160 characters to appear!
Interesting facts about mobile phones
This video contains 23 more interesting facts about our phones. They can be added to your project, so look carefully.
Now you know everything about the appearance of the telephone. Make a report and tell your friends, they will be interested! And I say goodbye to you, but don’t forget to look into new projects and stay in touch!
Good luck in your studies!
Evgenia Klimkovich.
Hello friends, I don’t know if you understood from the title of the article what I want to write about in it, but I wanted to express my opinion about mobile phones that were before and now. Perhaps this post will seem like nothing to you, but still, for many I think this topic will be interesting.
A mobile phone is a cool thing, right? Well, this is already something integral in our lives; life is not the same without a mobile phone, and for many it is completely impossible. To be honest, I don’t really remember the first models of mass-produced mobile phones, but still, whatever one may say, they were reliable. Even the same Nokia that is in the picture above. Yes, there are a lot of jokes about it and all that stuff, like a hammer, a brick, etc. But it’s a reliable phone.
Yes, it was not so sophisticated compared to today's mobile phones, but what is it not like, if you compare it with today's devices, then it is nothing more than a piece of plastic :).
What prompted me to write this article. I'll probably start from afar. More than three years ago I bought myself a communicator from HTC, it was an HTC P3400. This is such an obscure device, manufactured in 2007, and this phone served me for more than three years, and only recently I changed it to HTC One V. As you can see, I really liked this company, and I fell in love with it precisely because of the HTC P3400.
Why? Because for some reason the phone worked for three years and will probably work for much longer. It’s just reliable and made as needed, even outwardly it looks almost like new. Yes, it has a weak processor, old Windows Mobile, which everyone has already begun to forget about, but it worked and continues to work.
I bought myself a new phone and gave the HTC P3400 to my brother. Of course, after a couple of days he completely bathed him in water :). I thought that it would no longer work. But it dried out and turned on, and turned on as usual, the sensor works, the screen works as usual. The only question is how long will he work after such a bath?
Although that phone was simple compared to today's devices, it was unreliable and not made through *oops.
Now let's get back to my new purchase of HTC One V, by the way, I wrote a short review of it. I thought, well, since HTC made such a reliable communicator back in 2007, now in 2012 their devices should be simply ideal. That's why I bought myself a One V.
But what I thought turned out to be true just the opposite. As it turned out, there are enough problems with work, assembly and the case. You read the reviews on the forum, it becomes scary. There were probably several different batches with different defects. Either there are yellow spots on the screen, then the phone completely turns into a brick, then the power button gets stuck, and you don’t know what new thing will come out tomorrow. Everything seems to be fine for me so far, only the backlight on the side is visible, but oh well, so far so good. Yes, this phone is good, beautiful and functional. But it was put together in haste and somehow. Why, having paid money for a phone, should I think about whether it will die tomorrow or something else?
This is a problem not only with this model and not only with HTC. Do you know why? Because competition is eternal over who is cooler and who has the best. Rivalry between companies, because whoever releases it first is the leader and has income and respect. And for this reason, phones now hit the shelves untested; they get there because they need something new and faster than their competitors. And because of this haste, ordinary buyers suffer, that is, you and me.
These are the things, I’m waiting for your opinion in the comments. Good luck!